Award for Programs that Enhance Learning

A highly innovative educational outreach program working with 52 Western Australian secondary schools to inspire and assist students from low socio-economic status backgrounds to access the lifelong benefits of university study.

Program Awards

2012

Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

For leadership and innovation in implementing a University-wide Cultural Competence Program to engage, sustain and deepen an action-oriented conversation around cultural diversity, racism and community harmony.

For sustained commitment to inspiring and enabling students to engage creatively and critically with complex design problems.

UWA Awards

About

The individual and collective efforts of teachers and other staff are recognised through awards at individual, faculty, University and national levels.

University awards

UWA awards for excellence in teaching acknowledge UWA's outstanding teachers and support staff in categories that are selected each year.

Faculty teaching awards are based on peer review and assessment of good teaching with input from students.

Awards for contributions to learning (non-faculty) reward professional and academic staff from central organisational units who make a significant contribution to student learning or enhance the student learning experience.

UWA awards for Excellence in Teaching

These awards acknowledge the University's outstanding teachers and support staff and are competitive at the University level.

Award categories are selected each year and include such areas as postgraduate supervision, early career, team or program, and teaching and learning support.

Overview

The UWA Awards are prestigious and the winners are presented with their certificates and acknowledged by the University community at an award ceremony.

Procedures

The Awards Selection Group (TBC) is responsible for selecting the winners of the UWA Awards for Excellence in Teaching.

Congratulations to the 2017 winners of UWA Awards for Excellence in Teaching

Associate Professor Peter Merrotsy

UWA Award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

Associate Professor Denese Playford

UWA Award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

Associate Professor Martin Forsey

UWA Award for Excellence in Teaching

Fairway UWA: Dr Umneea Khan, Dr Tristan Fidler and Mary Lynn De Silva

UWA Award for Programs that Enhance Learning

Congratulations to the 2017 winners of UWA Awards for Exceptional Contribution to Education Futures

Dr Katie Meehan and Dr Michael Ovens for their project The Virtual Realities of Cancer

Professor Paul Flatau, Claire Stokes and Katie Stubley for the project Windows Into Homelessness: A Virtual Journey into Homelessness in Perth

Faculty teaching awards

The Faculty Teaching Awards are based on peer review and assessment of good teaching, with input from the student body.

The awards are based on national criteria for excellence in teaching used by the Department of Education and Training (DET).

Overview

Between 1991 and 2006 the University and Guild of Undergraduates had joint oversight of the University's Excellence in Teaching Awards. From 2007 teaching awards have been embedded in the faculties.

Congratulations to the 2017 winners of the Faculty Teaching Awards

Previous winners

The Awards for Contributions to Learning (non-faculty) recognise and reward outstanding contributions to student learning and the student experience by staff employed in units outside faculties at UWA.

The Awards for Contributions to Learning (ACL) consist of the following two categories:

Outstanding Contributions to Student LearningCentral Program Awards

The 2018 nomination deadline is Friday 28 September so don't miss out on the opportunity to recognise the wonderful work your colleagues in non faculty areas are doing for the benefit of our student community.